Problem in matrix and Date

Hi All
I have designed a form with a textbox and a matrix.
I have set CFL for the textbox
If select record I have made it to display in the matrix
at that time a error appears Invalid Date Value
-Anto

Hai Sridhar
Here is my code
Multi selection in CFL
Try
                        Dim CFLArr(50, 8) As String
                        For i As Integer = 1 To oDataTable.Rows.Count
                            CFLArr(i - 1, 0) = oCFLEvento.SelectedObjects.GetValue("U_Empid", i - 1)
                            CFLArr(i - 1, 1) = oCFLEvento.SelectedObjects.GetValue("U_Empname", i - 1)
                            CFLArr(i - 1, 2) = oCFLEvento.SelectedObjects.GetValue("U_dept", i - 1)
                            CFLArr(i - 1, 3) = oCFLEvento.SelectedObjects.GetValue("U_DOJ", i - 1)
                            CFLArr(i - 1, 4) = oCFLEvento.SelectedObjects.GetValue("U_exp", i - 1)
                            CFLArr(i - 1, 5) = oCFLEvento.SelectedObjects.GetValue("U_CTC", i - 1)
                        Next
                        oMatrix = oForm.Items.Item("matrix").Specific
                        For i As Integer = 1 To oDataTable.Rows.Count
                            oMatrix.AddRow()
                            oMatrix.Columns.Item("V_5").Cells.Item(oMatrix.RowCount).Specific.Value = CFLArr(i - 1, 0)
                            oMatrix.Columns.Item("V_4").Cells.Item(oMatrix.RowCount).Specific.Value = CFLArr(i - 1, 1)
                            oMatrix.Columns.Item("V_3").Cells.Item(oMatrix.RowCount).Specific.Value = CFLArr(i - 1, 2)
                            oMatrix.Columns.Item("V_2").Cells.Item(oMatrix.RowCount).Specific.Value = CFLArr(i - 1, 3)
                            oMatrix.Columns.Item("V_1").Cells.Item(oMatrix.RowCount).Specific.Value = CFLArr(i - 1, 4)
                            oMatrix.Columns.Item("V_0").Cells.Item(oMatrix.RowCount).Specific.Value = CFLArr(i - 1, 5)
                        Next
                    Catch ex As Exception
                        SBO_Application.MessageBox("ErrCfl:" & ex.Message)
                    End Try
-Anto

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create index codes_code on codes(code);
-- Some XML records with coded values (the real records are much more complex of course):
-- I think this took about a minute or two
DECLARE
ssn varchar2(20);
xmlrec xmltype;
i integer;
BEGIN
xmlrec := xmltype('<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Root>
<Id>123456789</Id>
<Element>
<Subelement1><Code>11</Code></Subelement1>
<Subelement2><Code>21</Code></Subelement2>
<Subelement3><Code>31</Code></Subelement3>
</Element>
<Element>
<Subelement1><Code>11</Code></Subelement1>
<Subelement2><Code>21</Code></Subelement2>
<Subelement3><Code>31</Code></Subelement3>
</Element>
<Element>
<Subelement1><Code>11</Code></Subelement1>
<Subelement2><Code>21</Code></Subelement2>
<Subelement3><Code>31</Code></Subelement3>
</Element>
</Root>
for i IN 1..100000 loop
insert into records(ssn, xmlrec) values (i, xmlrec);
end loop;
commit;
END;
-- Some code data like this (ignoring date ranges on codes):
DECLARE
description varchar2(100);
i integer;
BEGIN
description := 'This is the code description ';
for i IN 1..3000 loop
insert into codes(code, description) values (to_char(i), description);
end loop;
commit;
end;
-- Retrieve one record while performing code lookups. Takes about 5-6 seconds...pretty slow.
-- Each additional lookup (times 3 repeating elements in the data) adds about 1 second.
-- A typical real record has 5 Elements and 20 Subelements, meaning more than 20 seconds to display the record
-- Note we are accessing a single XML record based on SSN
-- Note also we are reusing the one test code table multiple times for convenience of this test
select xmlquery('
for $r in Root
return
<Root>
<Id>123456789</Id>
{for $e in $r/Element
    return
    <Element>
      <Subelement1>
        {$e/Subelement1/Code}
<Description>
{ora:view("disaac","codes")/ROW[CODE=$e/Subelement1/Code]/DESCRIPTION/text() }
</Description>
</Subelement1>
<Subelement2>
{$e/Subelement2/Code}
<Description>
{ora:view("disaac","codes")/ROW[CODE=$e/Subelement2/Code]/DESCRIPTION/text()}
</Description>
</Subelement2>
<Subelement3>
{$e/Subelement3/Code}
<Description>
{ora:view("disaac","codes")/ROW[CODE=$e/Subelement3/Code]/DESCRIPTION/text() }
</Description>
</Subelement3>
</Element>
</Root>
' passing xmlrec returning content)
from records
where ssn = '10000';
The plan shows the nested loop access that slows things down.
By contrast, a functionally-similar SQL query on relational data will use a hash join and perform 10x to 100x faster, even for a single record. There seems to be no way for the optimizer to see the regularity in the XML structure and perform a corresponding optimization in joining the code tables. Not sure if registering a schema would help. Using structured storage probably would. But should that be necessary given we’re working with a single record?
Operation Object
|SELECT STATEMENT ()
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| NESTED LOOPS (SEMI)
| TABLE ACCESS (FULL) CODES
| XPATH EVALUATION ()
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| NESTED LOOPS (SEMI)
| TABLE ACCESS (FULL) CODES
| XPATH EVALUATION ()
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| NESTED LOOPS (SEMI)
| TABLE ACCESS (FULL) CODES
| XPATH EVALUATION ()
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| XPATH EVALUATION ()
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| XPATH EVALUATION ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) RECORDS
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) RECORDS_SSN
With an xmlindex, the same query above runs in about 1 second, so is about 5x faster (0.2 sec/lookup), which is almost good enough. Is this the answer? Or is there a better way? I’m not sure why the optimizer wants to scan the code tables and index into the (one) XML record, rather than the other way around, but maybe that makes sense if the optimizer wants to use the same general plan as when the WHERE clause constraint is relaxed to multiple records.
-- Add an xmlindex. Takes about 2.5 minutes
create index records_record_xml ON records(xmlrec)
indextype IS xdb.xmlindex;
Operation Object
|SELECT STATEMENT ()
| SORT (GROUP BY)
| FILTER ()
| NESTED LOOPS ()
| FAST DUAL ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| FILTER ()
| TABLE ACCESS (FULL) CODES
| FILTER ()
| NESTED LOOPS ()
| FAST DUAL ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| SORT (GROUP BY)
| FILTER ()
| NESTED LOOPS ()
| FAST DUAL ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| FILTER ()
| TABLE ACCESS (FULL) CODES
| FILTER ()
| NESTED LOOPS ()
| FAST DUAL ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| SORT (GROUP BY)
| FILTER ()
| NESTED LOOPS ()
| FAST DUAL ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| FILTER ()
| TABLE ACCESS (FULL) CODES
| FILTER ()
| NESTED LOOPS ()
| FAST DUAL ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| FILTER ()
| NESTED LOOPS ()
| FAST DUAL ()
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| SORT (AGGREGATE)
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATH_TABLE
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) SYS113473_RECORDS_R_PATHID_IX
| TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) RECORDS
| INDEX (RANGE SCAN) RECORDS_SSN
Am I on the right path, or am I totally using the wrong approach? I thought about using XSLT but was unsure how to reference the code tables.
I’ve done the best I can constraining the main record to a single row passed to the XMLQUERY. Given Mark’s post (thanks!) should I be joining and constraining the code tables in the SQL WHERE clause too? That’s going to make the query much more complicated, but right now we’re more concerned about performance than complexity.

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Hi,
Our Environment is Essbase 11.1.2.2 and working on Essbase EAS and Shared Services components.One of our user tried to run the Cal Script of one Application and faced this error.
Dynamic Calc processor cannot lock more than [100] ESM blocks during the calculation, please increase CalcLockBlock setting and then retry(a small data cache setting could also cause this problem, please check the data cache size setting).
I have done some Google and found that we need to add something in Essbase.cfg file like below.
1012704 Dynamic Calc processor cannot lock more than number ESM blocks during the calculation, please increase CalcLockBlock setting and then retry (a small data cache setting could also cause this problem, please check the data cache size setting).
Possible Problems
Analytic Services could not lock enough blocks to perform the calculation.
Possible Solutions
Increase the number of blocks that Analytic Services can allocate for a calculation:
Set the maximum number of blocks that Analytic Services can allocate to at least 500.
If you do not have an $ARBORPATH/bin/essbase.cfg file on the server computer, create one using a text editor.
In the essbase.cfg file on the server computer, set CALCLOCKBLOCKHIGH to 500.
Stop and restart Analytic Server.
Add the SET LOCKBLOCK HIGH command to the beginning of the calculation script.
Set the data cache large enough to hold all the blocks specified in the CALCLOCKBLOCKHIGH setting.
Determine the block size.
Set the data catche size.
Actually in our Server Config file(essbase.cfg) we dont have below data added.
CalcLockBlockHigh 2000
CalcLockBlockDefault 200
CalcLockBlocklow 50
So my doubt is if we edit the Essbase.cfg file and add the above settings and restart the services will it work? and if so why should we change the Server config file if the problem is with one application Cal Script. Please guide me how to proceed.
Regards,
Naveen

Your calculation needs to hold more blocks in memory than your current set up allows.
From the docs (quoting so I don't have to write it, not to be a smarta***:
CALCLOCKBLOCK specifies the number of blocks that can be fixed at each level of the SET LOCKBLOCK HIGH | DEFAULT | LOW calculation script command.
When a block is calculated, Essbase fixes (gets addressability to) the block along with the blocks containing its children. Essbase calculates the block and then releases it along with the blocks containing its children. By default, Essbase allows up to 100 blocks to be fixed concurrently when calculating a block. This is sufficient for most database calculations. However, you may want to set a number higher than 100 if you are consolidating very large numbers of children in a formula calculation. This ensures that Essbase can fix all the required blocks when calculating a data block and that performance will not be impaired.
Example
If the essbase.cfg file contains the following settings:
CALCLOCKBLOCKHIGH 500 CALCLOCKBLOCKDEFAULT 200 CALCLOCKBLOCKLOW 50
then you can use the following SET LOCKBLOCK setting commands in a calculation script:
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means that Essbase can fix up to 500 data blocks when calculating one block.
Support doc is saying to change your config file so those settings can be made available for any calc script to use.
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